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| By Rob McCurdy
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Slump is too harsh a word for it, but high scoring Deshaun Thomas is definitely in a shooting funk.

Through the first eight games in the Big Ten, the league's leading scorer was a picture of efficiency, shooting 50 percent from the field, 44 percent from the 3-point arc and 84 percent from the foul line.

In the last seven games, those numbers have dropped precipitously: 37 percent from the field, 24 percent from the arc, while shooting 89 percent from the foul line. ...